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The basis of Justification. Romans 5:12-21. Basis of Justification: Representation. Basis of Justification: Representation. Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God. Dead “in Adam” by default Adam brought sin Sin brought death Death spread to all. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The basis ofJustificationRomans 5:12-21
Basis of Justification: Representation
Basis of Justification: Representation
✙Dead “in Adam” by default–Adam brought sin–Sin brought death–Death spread to all
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God....
Basis of Justification: Representation
✙Dead “in Adam” by default–Adam brought sin–Sin brought death–Death spread to all
Physical deathA sentence of “condemnation”
2 Thessalonians 1:9These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power....
Basis of Justification: Representation
✙Dead “in Adam” by default–Adam brought sin–Sin brought death–Death spread to all
Physical deathA sentence of “condemnation”“Made sinners”A lifetime of death
Before the Fallinnocentfree to choosecapable of good
After the Fallguiltyenslaved to sinincapable of good
Basis of Justification: Representation
✙Dead “in Adam” by default–Adam brought sin–Sin brought death–Death spread to all
Physical deathA sentence of “condemnation”“Made sinners”A lifetime of death
Basis of Justification: Representation
✙Dead “in Adam” by default“Total depravity”
Alienated relationships – Gen 3Intellect darkened – Eph 4Emotions degraded – Eph 2Conscience desensitized – 1 Tim 4Spiritual perception dulled – Acts 28Body degenerating – 2 Cor 4
Basis of Justification: Representation
✙Dead “in Adam” by default–How did this happen?
Adam = “man”
1 Corinthians 15:22 ...in Adam all die...
Basis of Justification: Representation
✙Dead “in Adam” by default–How did this happen?
Adam = “man”–This doesn’t seem fair
“It is impossible for me to be held jointly responsible as though I were a joint cause for an act that another did many generations ago and in a situation radically different from mine.” Wolfgang Pannenberg
Basis of Justification: Representation
✙Dead “in Adam” by default✙Alive “in Christ” by faith
Basis of Justification: Representation
✙Dead “in Adam” by default“At the sight of this last conflict, I felt a sensation never known to me before: a confusion of passions, an awful stillness of sorrow, a gloomy terror without a name.” Samuel JohnsonThe weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, [poverty] and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise [compared] to what we fear of death. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure